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I've just spent nearly an hour on the phone with the telephone company. I switched recently from Telia to Tele2. Tele2's subscription costs are lower but maybe not so much as their prices are quoted exclusive of 25% taxes. You also have to know if you are being quoted for a month , two months or three months and if it is FULL month or not quite a month.

Anyway, they'd made a mistake and charged me 139 kr too much on one bill which they blamed on a technical error and refunded. I also questioned a charge which they call " charge for extending a contract or making changes to an existing agreement "

I pointed out their representative who signed me up assured me there would not be any extra charges and that I felt cheated by this - so they gave me 100 kr credit , about half the sum of this charge. " Not something we usually do , but will in this case as a gesture of goodwill " which makes me wonder how often they have to dish out these " gestures of good will ". I expect they are still making a profit from the 90 % or whatever who never bother to question or complain ...after all , it does take time. So , what it boils down to , I was paid about 100kr an hour for my time

Right .. that's it .. I have ventilated now and can move on , a happy bunny

In his introduction The Sufis, a book Robert Graves co-wrote with Idries Shah, Graves translates a poem of the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) which illustrates a triple goddess as a theme among medieval Sufis:

I follow the religion of Love,

Now I am sometimes called

A Shepherd of gazelles

And now a Christian monk,

And now a Persian sage.

My beloved is three-

Three yet only one;

Many things appear as three,

Which are no more than one.

Give Her no name,

As if to limit one

At sight of Whom

All limitation is confounded.

In this book, Robert Graves and Idries Shah explore the influences that medieval Kabbalah and pre-Islamic Sufi beliefs had on surviving pre-Christian folk-traditions in Europe.

The Goddess can be both compelling and subtle.

She enters my life in subtle ways.
whispers that grow louder as I reflect on them.
They morph and take root in me, in my body, feelings, mind and spirit.

Symbols speak.